Original name Cheung Yik-sang, actor Cheung Ying made his debut “The Glowing Pearl” in 1937 and became well known with the film "Poor Souls" in 1940. After the Sino-Japanese War he returned to Hong Kong and acted in films like "Everlasting Regret" (1948), “Dawn Must Come” (1950) and “The Prodigal Son" (1952). His career spanned over 40 years with 300 films under his name. In 1952, he founded Union Film Enterprise Ltd. together with other actors and film workers and acted in many Union films including “Family” (1953), “A Son is Born” (1953) and “In the Face of Demolition” (1953). He later founded two of his own film companies, namely Wah Kiu Film Enterprise (together with Tse Yik-chi) and Hoover Film Company. In 1956, he went into film directing making “A Peaceful Family Will Prosper”(1956) and went on to direct 14 more films including "Driver No. 7" (1958), “The Night the Spirit Returns” (1962) and "Story of the Sword and the Sabre, Part One and Two" (1963). Cheung joined TVB in 1969, and later RTV. He took part in TV productions like "Reincarnated" and “Benevolence of the Land”. Cheung died in 1984 in Canada, while filming "Love Me and Dad" (released in 1988).